DR Anthony Hesketh

Councillor, Nether Wyresdale

WYRE BOROUGH COUNCIL

 
 

I have constructed this web site to run in line with my life as a councillor. My day job is as an academic at Lancaster University, specializing in organizational strategy and performance. This part of my life is served by my web page at Lancaster University and can be found here: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/anthony-hesketh/


My public life has been shaped by a passion to protect the beautiful place where I live: the Forest of Bowland and Nether Wyresdale, the latter being the ward constituency I represent on Wyre Borough Council (WBC). The work of the Council and further information can be found found here: http://www.wyrebc.gov.uk/.


I should say at this point that all of the views I declare here are personal, and do not represent the views of the my employer, the Council, nor of any political party.


On this web site you will find out about:


  1. 1.Why I became a councillor;

  2. 2.What my work on the Council entails;

  3. 3.What my policies are;

  4. 4.Why I am standing down at the next election

  5. 5.My contact details.




 

Welcome to my personal councillor’s web page

MY CREDO


‘My thesis is an almost ridiculously simple one that I have adopted over a time as a northerner.  By my definition, a northerner is someone who has lived for a time in the north in one part of the world or another and who - importantly - has a love for the north, and all of its characteristics, how it feels, how it smells, its isolation, its roughness, its honesty, its beauty.  And, no, love is not too strong a word - it may indeed be the only word strong enough to capture the feelings that shape me and give rise to my thesis.  A northerner by my definition quite simply belongs - to a place - and has a sense of obligation to that place and the people in it.  My ideas about what is important when forming regional linkages are a direct result of this sense of North and the behaviours that arise in me -  stemming as they do from it - the place.  It may be the case that my thesis applies equally well to southerners, to urban dwellers who appear, on the surface, to take none of their identity from a region or the land.  I have no way of knowing it since I have never thought of myself as such and wouldn’t presume to know them or their beliefs.’

(Michael Hill, 2000)